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The picture made me chuckle. I remember seeing things like that at my grandmother's house when I stayed with her sometimes. Pom-poms were the order of the day for little girls back then. I know the "scary serial-killer ski helmet" you are talking about. Knitting seemed more the rage back in the 60s when I was a little tyke. I remember the girls at school making an endless array of striped scarves that were about six feet long. The hippy movement helped to introduce some wickedly wild colors and patterns and some of the more progressive men that I knew who were into the movement would sit and knit publicly. Polyester was the rage, tight Jordache pants, bell-bottoms, and lots of scarves. I think the good folks who first introduced the Dr. Who scarf were inspired by something that may have been seen in a Coats and Clark catalog, but I dare say they probably used a much better quality wool.

Anyway, thanks for that visual snapshot that took me back a few decades.